2014-es Ducati modellek

Surviving long-term motorcycle riding requires a healthy dose of fear and the heightened awareness that accompanies it. Nothing suffers fools quite as ruthlessly as two-wheeled transport, an axiom that has been relentlessly reinforced by YouTube. The exposure of riding is bound to catch up with thrill-seekers hungry for speed, knee dragging, and all the potential disaster that comes with tapping into a sportbike's vast reserves of performance.

My concern is the 2014 model. Is it going to be a entirely new design... I have searched quite a bit and I know there has been a decent amount of discussions pertaining to this with no concrete info. I don't want to buy a bike and have a new one come out in less than a year that is completely different.

I ordered my Panigale about this time last yer, and it was a looooong winter without it. Unless you have something awesome to ride now, living in FL, I would get the 848 - It is the Classic look, and I doubt a re-sized Panigale will be ready that soon. You could probably get a good price now as well.

Casey qualified well and won a few races, but crashed a lot his last season on a Ducati. I doubt he'd want any part of that again, unless he could actually see improvement in what Audi may be doing with the bike. Now, it would be very, very interesting to see what he'd do if Yamaha offered him Rossi's seat for 2015. A Lorenzo/Stoner pairing facing down Marquez/Pedrosa would be fascinating.